Every religion has its own set of rituals and ceremonies, the implementation of which sometimes provides feedback with something secretly. We can find a lot of facts when people saw or felt something strange during praying or just being in the saint place. Also some believers keeps in touch with spirits and gods, who help to make right decisions and answer some complete questions. One of the most mystical phenomena is bleeding Christians icons. Such activity usually involves some kind of disaster or catastrophe. Before the terror attack in Moscow, where was killed 129 people, in one of the Moscow church a week before the event started the icon of Theotokos begun to bleed. Hundreds of worshipers came to pray but it couldn’t prevent the tragedy. Such cases are many, and none of them has not yet been explained by science. Another quite common is the appearance of keeping the Saints on various subjects, such cases also generally occur before disaster. People photograph them and distribute these images. Science can’t explain the nature of appearance, but church argues that such signs warn and protect people from sudden deaths. Phenomenon that unlike previous has a logical explanation, but it never ceases to amaze mankind - is ghosts. Scientists argue that the spirits of the dead, which some people with thin energy field see or feel, it's just the remains of a deceased person's energy field, which eventually disappears. Establishing contact, as do the mediums and psychics, official science denies, however, de facto, this practice is carried out. So there are a lot of another mystic facts in religion, but the main thing is in what and how person believes. Only faith in God, the power of the mind or in space humans can do wonders with a man.

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...I can give my others the visual aspect of religion on this planet called Earth, so that they too can see what I see in my mind but in theirs.
One example of behaviors that I have seen is that the people seem to pray a lot for one of the religious aspects. One seems to pray to a statue or in their words is that they are bowing to the statue, which it is the same thing to them as praying. Pray is to utter or address a prayer or prayers to God, a god, or another object of worship, and/or to make a devout or earnest request for something or someone (Farlex).
A second example of the behaviors that I have seen is that they have so many different places to worship their religion. I was walking down, what they call a street, and there were so many buildings that they went into to practice their religion. And with the people you didn’t have to be forced to pick a side. You can pick whichever one you wanted to. There are temples, churches, and also mosques which are some of the places you can worship at. A place of worship is a specially designed structure or consecrated space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion/praying, veneration, or religious study (Farlex). So to a point you can worship anywhere you want to.
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